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What’s Homestay? |
Want to improve your English? |
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Objective: Learn how to elicit information from an advertisement and text. |
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What’s Homestay? |
Homestay application |
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Objective: Learn how to fill in an application form. |
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Setting off |
Destination ‘Downunder’ |
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Objective: Expand vocabulary, read and understand a travel brochure. |
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Setting off |
A letter to the Carters Full lesson available
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Objective: Read and understand an informal letter of introduction. |
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Here we are! |
Who are the Carters? |
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Objective: Elicit information from a letter about people’s physical appearance. |
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Here we are! |
My new family |
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Objective: Learn how to elicit information about personality traits from the text. |
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A new home |
This is our house. |
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Objective: Read a description of a house using prepositions of location. |
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A new home |
Our room! |
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Objective: Read a text using prepositions of location. |
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Let’s hit the beach! |
Meet Tim. He’s a lifesaver. |
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Objective: Elicit information to answer questions from the text. Identify strong versus mild obligation. |
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Let’s hit the beach! |
Be safe at the beach this summer! |
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Objective: Read and understand a safety pamphlet for Australian beaches. Identify imperatives in the reading. |
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Amazing Aussie animals |
Marsupials |
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Objective: Identify factual information within a text, answer questions and recognise a topic sentence. |
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Amazing Aussie animals |
When we were watching … |
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Objective: Read postcards about Australian animals. Identify past and present continuous. |
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What do you like to do? |
Would you like to join? |
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Objective: Select factual information from a text to answer questions. Identify the different ways to use like, like to and would like to. |
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What do you like to do? |
How often do you …? |
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Objective: Use adverbs of frequency and calculate how often activities occur. |
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BBQ Party! |
A famous Aussie dessert |
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Objective: Answer comprehension questions and identify expressions of quantity. |
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BBQ Party! |
A new ‘barbie’! |
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Objective: Read a set of instructions and complete activities based on comprehension and sequencing details. |
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Big day out! |
The big three Full lesson available
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Objective: Answer comprehension questions and identify first and second conditionals. |
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Big day out! |
The big plan |
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Objective: Identify the different uses of ‘going to’. Use different ways of expressing time. |
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Thanks and goodbye |
My Australian experience |
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Objective: Read a text and answer comprehension questions. Identify expressions about ‘feelings’. |
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Thanks and goodbye |
Thank you letter |
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Objective: Recognise time clauses and identify ‘feeling’ adjectives. |
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Sentences |
The Sentence |
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Objective: To identify and use complete sentences. |
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Punctuation |
Sentence Endings |
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Objective: To use full-stops, question marks, exclamation marks and capital letters correctly. |
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Capitalisation |
Capital Letters 2 |
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Objective: To use capital letters correctly: in titles and letters. |
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Pronouns |
Pronouns 2 |
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Objective: To recognise and use personal, possessive and relative pronouns. |
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Parts of Speech Part a |
Prepositions |
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Objective: To identify and use prepositions correctly. |
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Punctuation Skills Part b |
Quotation Marks |
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Objective: To use quotation marks for direct speech. |
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Contractions |
Contractions |
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Objective: To identify and use contractions. |
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Common Errors |
Common Errors in writing |
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Objective: To identify and eliminate common errors. |
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Commas 2 |
Commas 2 |
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Objective: To use commas: to separate places, to separate clauses within sentences, and when using direct speech. |
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Conjunctions – Sentences |
Conjunctions – Sentences |
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Objective: To use conjunctions to increase the variety of sentence structure in written expression. |
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Phrases |
Phrases |
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Objective: To identify and use phrases including adjectival and adverbial phrases. |
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Clauses |
Clauses |
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Objective: To identify and use clauses including adjectival, adverbial and noun clauses. |
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Subject-Verb Agreement |
Subject-Verb Agreement |
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Objective: To identify and use correct tense, number and person in forming verbs. |
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Verb tense – Compound |
Verb tense – Compound |
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Objective: To identify and use ‘to be’ and ‘to have’ with the appropriate participle of the main verb. |
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Verbs – Active and Passive voice |
Verbs – Active and Passive voice |
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Objective: To identify and use active and passive voice. |
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Apostrophe – Possession |
Apostrophe – Possession |
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Objective: To use the apostrophe of possession correctly. |
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Similes and Metaphors |
Similes and Metaphors |
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Objective: To identify and use similes and metaphors. |
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Figurative Language |
Onomatopoeia, Assonance and Alliteration |
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Objective: To identify, and make use of, onomatopoeia, assonance, and alliteration. |
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Common Errors |
Common Errors in verb usage, spelling and punctuation |
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Objective: To identify and eliminate common errors. |
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Colons and Semi-Colons |
Colons and Semi-Colons |
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Objective: To use colons and semi-colons correctly. |
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Sentence Structure Part a |
Subject and Predicate |
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Objective: To identify the subject and predicate within a sentence and to understand they are the two main parts of a sentence. |
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Regular and Irregular Verbs |
Regular and Irregular Verbs |
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Objective: To identify and use regular and irregular verbs in the present and past tense. |
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Verbs – Infinitives |
Verbs – Infinitives |
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Objective: To identify and use the infinitive form of the verb. |
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Modal Verbs |
Modal Verbs |
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Objective: To identify and use modal verbs with the appropriate form of the main verb. |
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Participles – as Verbs and Adjectives |
Participles – as Verbs and Adjectives |
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Objective: To identify and use participles as verbs or adjectives as indicators of continuing action. |
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Gerunds |
Gerunds |
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Objective: To identify and use gerunds. |
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Interjections |
Interjections |
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Objective: To identify and use interjections correctly. |
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Plurals |
Plurals 4 – Unusual |
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Objective: To use nouns whose singular and plural forms are the same. To use compound noun plurals. |
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Sentence Improvement |
Sentence Improvement |
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Objective: To construct expressive sentences by using adjectives, adverbs, phrases and clauses. |
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Punctuation |
Punctuation – Various |
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Objective: To use hyphens, dashes, apostrophes, quotation marks, parentheses and brackets correctly. |
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Mass and Count Nouns |
Determiners |
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Objective: To identify and use determiners correctly with mass and count nouns. |
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Transitive and Intransitive Verbs |
Transitive and Intransitive Verbs |
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Objective: To identify and use transitive and intransitive verbs. |
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Case – Nouns and Pronouns |
Case – Nouns, Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives |
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Objective: To identify the case of nouns and pronouns. |
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Plurals of Foreign Nouns |
Plurals 5 – Foreign |
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Objective: To form plurals of foreign nouns. |
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Variety of Expression |
Sentence Construction |
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Objective: To construct expressive and precise sentences to improve meaning. |
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Figurative Language |
Symbolism and Personification |
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Objective: To identify, and make use of, symbolism and personification. |
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Review of Figures of Speech |
Review of Figures of Speech |
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Objective: To identify multiple uses of figures of speech within writing. |
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Spelling Skills |
Word Usage |
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Objective: To correctly choose words with similar spelling, sound and meaning. |
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Essay Writing 1 |
Essay Writing 1 |
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Objective: To develop and write essays (expositions). |
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Essay Writing 2 |
Essay Writing 2 |
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Objective: To develop and write essays. |
